Paul L. Smith
Nascimento : 1939-02-05, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
Morte : 2012-04-25
História
Paul L. Smith (born February 5, 1939) is an American character actor. Burly, bearded, and imposing, he has appeared in films and occasionally on TV since the 1970s, generally playing "heavies" and bad guys. His most notable roles include Hamidou, the vicious prison warden in Midnight Express (1978), Bluto in Robert Altman's Popeye (1980) and the Beast Rabban in David Lynch's Dune (1984). He is sometimes credited as Paul Smith or Paul Lawrence Smith
Vladimir Corzon (as Paul Smith)
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons CIA agent Zack Hamilton who puts together a team of three beautiful women; CIA trainer Kim Taylor; photographer Victoria Carrera; and actress Eva Kirov to go to undercover as fashion models to infiltrate the terrorist organization to find the bomb before it can be used.
The Archduke
Em meio à uma série de aventuras, o inveterado jogador de pôquer Bret Maverick (Mel Gibson) tenta arrumar os três mil dólares que lhe faltam para participar de um jogo milionário em uma barca do Mississipi, no qual o vencedor vai receber meio milhão de dólares. Para entrar neste jogo poderoso, ele vai juntar forças com uma interessante e misteriosa jogadora.
Santos
Ex-campeão de kick boxing se torna ajudante do Xerife em uma região desértica. Quando um violento chefe do crime começa a perturbar e ameaçar duas pessoas inocentes no local, ele tentará usar todas as suas forças para que o criminoso pague por seus erros.
Elko
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. The CIA then hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out. This big budget film with many 'A' stars was barely released. In fact, despite being a U.S. production filmed in Europe, it was never widely screened theatrically in America nor did it receive a video release.
Associate Producer
Kat arrives in Los Angeles to audition for movies. However, after meeting a sleazy producer, she and her new friend find themselves in a women's prison run by sadistic guards and a lesbian warden.
Head Guard
Kat arrives in Los Angeles to audition for movies. However, after meeting a sleazy producer, she and her new friend find themselves in a women's prison run by sadistic guards and a lesbian warden.
Joe Kapinski
A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best friend in a coma.
Elmo Rodgers
An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.
Slue
A small-town car thief and his transvestite wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.
Wounded Man
A hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret documents from WW2, hidden at an American military base.
Steele
After a man's sister is killed by two gunmen who seemingly come out of nowhere, he manages to find and kill them. He then discovers that the men he killed were part of a multi-millionaire's bizarre "death game", where someone is hunted through the streets of Los Angeles by teams of killers who get a big-money prize for killing their quarry--and he realizes that now he is "it".
Inspector Wainright
Some punks go into a small town and start hassling the gas station owner; Billy Ray Dalton a friend of the owner pulls a shot gun on them and tells them to go away. Later they go back and force the owner to tell them where Dalton lives. Now, Dalton a part time musician's out on a gig, when they go to his house and kill his pregnant wife, and take his daughter. Dalton follows them to try and get his daughter back.
Serbus
American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.
Dr. Paul Abbot
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
Duval
A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob tries to move in on his operation, he goes down there to try to stop them.
Mr. Booar (uncredited)
Durante um desfile de moda, onde Billy Wong e Danny Garoni são seguranças, Laura Shapiro, filha de um milionário, é sequestrada. A polícia acredita que o pai da jovem esteja envolvido com um traficante de drogas de Hong Kong, e manda os dois agentes investigarem o caso.
Faron Crush
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.
Falkon
Em um mundo de barbárie, a rainha Gedren deseja o poder absoluto. Ela invade a cidade de Hablac e mata o guardião de um talismã que lhe dará esse poder. É quando Red Sonja, a irmã do guardião, decide derrubar a rainha com sua espada mágica e com a ajuda de Kalidor, por quem se apaixona. Mas a sua força depende de uma condição: Que nunca se entregue para nenhum homem.
The Beast Rabban
Em 10.190 D.C., um duque e sua família são mandados pelo Imperador para Arrakis, um árido planeta conhecido como Duna, que tem uma matéria essencial às viagens interplanetárias: a Especiaria. O motivo desta mudança é que o Imperador planeja destruir o duque e sua família, mas seu filho escapa e procura se vingar usando a ecologia deste mundo como uma de suas armas.
This wacky comedy takes place in the weeks leading up to the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. With the Allies uncertain as to what the Germans have in store for them after the invasion, it's up to one Jewish paratrooper to sneak into Germany's top-secret army base and steal the plans!
Cesar Santiago
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.
Willard
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Sir Blackstone Hardtack
Two children move to a dream world of magicians, witches and an evil Gypsy.
The Surgeon
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
Bluto
Numa noite de tempestade, o rabugento de bom-coração marinheiro Popeye chega em um pequeno barco ao porto da comunidade litorânea de Sweethaven. Ele aluga um quarto na pensão da família Palito e rapidamente se apaixona pela filha dos proprietários, Olívia. Olívia está perturbada pois fora prometida em casamento para o Capitão Brutus (que é chamado pelo nome original das tiras, Bluto), um encrenqueiro rufião que oprime a comunidade cobrando impostos abusivos para o seu chefe, o misterioso Comodoro. Popeye conta que está a procura de seu pai, o Vovô Popeye, que sua mãe falecida lhe contara em sonho que ainda estaria vivo e morando naquele lugar. Ninguém lhe dá atenção, até que Popeye mostra sua força ao enfrentar um bando de valentões na taverna.
Radio Announcer
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
Jim Waterman / Victor Prescott
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man Robert Fuller puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.
Mo
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Hamidou
Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), um estudante americano, ao visitar a Turquia decide traficar alguns pacotes de haxixe, prendendo-os debaixo de suas roupas. Seu plano acaba não dando certo e ele é preso, com sua vida se transformando em um pesadelo a partir de então, pois é brutalmente espancado e jogado em uma imunda prisão. Quando espera ser libertado é levado a um novo julgamento com efeito retroativo, que o condena a uma longa pena.
Paul the Westerner
The thriving narcotics smuggling operations in Bangkok are headed by rival American and Chinese interests. The former is led by huge bearded nightclub owner, menacingly played by Paul Smith. His bitter rival Tse-Chan goes to elaborate lengths to have him "eliminated." The honors, however, fall to the fantastic Bruce Li - as an undercover agent playing a highly dangerous game - and his attractive girl assistant. With their supreme intervention, both factions are eliminated forever.
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Simone / Toby
Bumbling crooks Butch and Toby pose as priests in order to elude being arrested by the authorities in Africa. Butch and Toby deliver a statue of the Virgin Mary from Africa to Amsterdam. Unbenownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling diamonds. A group of equally inept mobsters give chase.
Pound Supervisor
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
Raphael McDonald
Butch
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.
Len
Len and Cody are two friends who can not spend more than two minutes without arguing. These crazy gunmen snatched a Confederate colonel charged an archaic machine gun sidecar soon becomes a coveted prize for all offenders in west Texas.
Len
Coby is an ex-soldier and billiard champion. He and his friend Len accept the sum of 50,000 dollars to investigate the trafficking of arms across the Mexican border, but the pair come across a new revolutionary revolver.
Peter
Johnny Cash appears in and narrates this retelling of the story of Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection.
Shmiel
Professional big-dude Paul Smith in an Israeli-produced action-comedy that looks to take inspiration from the Hill/Spencer comedies.
Comedy which revolves around the exploits of Nahtche and his constant success in disentangling himself from the grip of the persons who are after him and whom he is leading by the nose.
שמיל
Gabe Price (uncredited)
A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.